I'll start off by saying that this photoshoot took place 2 years ago (October 2008) and I did not release these photos until tonight because I wasn't sure if the public would understand what we were going for. Hence the watermark is still my old website lol.

Yes. I am very scantly clad. Yes. I am basically just wearing shreds of fabric and very well glued on jewelry. Yes. I am near exposed. Yes. They are boobs.

The reason I did this photoshoot was not to scandalize (although I'm sure that is a by-product effect), but to pay tribute to the amazing art styles of Heavy Metal [link] and High Fantasy in the 70's and 80's.

Good fantasy (art, book, film etc.) and sensual feminine forms have always gone hand in hand. I absolutely adore the work of Luis Royo [link] and have in the past saluted him with my Battle Angel [link] images [link] This time I wanted to create a theme around the Greek Goddess of War, Enyo [link] Terrible yet beautiful, bloodthirsty yet mesmerizing.

I created the outfit within a week, being inspired by Luis Royo [link] and John Carter's Princess of Mars [link] using light airy fabrics in creme and sage colors. I did a lot of fabric shredding and ripping, wove braids of fabrics and tied random pieces together. I spent way too much money on materials and time on making the headpieces and jewelry accessories. You can see a close-up of the headpieces here: [link]Brian Boling created the gold collar out of plastic and I decorated it with chains and crystals.

As usual, I did my own makeup and styling.

Weapons were kindly loaned to us by friends.

I shot with my two most trusted photographer friends - Kevin Stewart and Brian Boling. You'll see a difference in their styles of photography as well as the fact that Brian shot digital, and Kevin shot on film. I love different qualities about each and was grateful to have both very talented and creative artists collaborating with me on this shoot.

I can't express how fantastic is your cosplaying... ..so I will humbly copy two lines I found in the comments. This two sentences smartly said by these people may resumes my feeling seeing your work. Hope they don't mind (if yes, just delete it)::

I think it was a great shoot, and not just because your a beautiful and scantly clad woman. I'm a fan of the Warrior woman and have found that there is beauty in the female form as well an ugliness in humanity. I've always found it interesting how many forces of destruction are also beautiful. The Dance of the fire's flame, the Lighting playing across the Storm clouds. A warrior woman to me is the human representation of these forces at work.

You Miss.. are a hot woman. the only thing that I see that you would really benefit from is maybe a green screen in the background, an incredible matte painting. perhaps some sort of viking-esqe post-war field and photographer with a better lighting set-up. you are doing what you do better than anybody, I totally subscribed to your page. 0h, and your hair and skin tone are exquisite. Not sure if I spelled that correctly, I never use that word but it seemed appropriate to use here.

Something is throwing me off here. Maybe it's the camera, but for some reason I get the impression you are either wearing stockings, have dust on your legs, or something. It looks a little like white dust, maybe? or it could just be glare...

These are some of my own favorites from the shoot. I love story-telling photos. The headpiece cost over $100 in material (afterward I scolded myself) and I piddled with it for hours. It was fun, though I have to get some other use out of them...